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Google Docs Replaces OpenOffice In Ubuntu Netbook Edition 298

Posted by timothy on Friday February 05, 2010 @09:23PM from the hope-your-connection's-up dept.

uneuser writes "Digitizor reports that the Ubuntu developers have dropped OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE) 10.04 and replaced it with Google Docs. Documents in Ubuntu Netbook Edition will now be opened in Google Docs by default."

Comment More pedantic, but... (Score 2, Informative) 324

by varn_ix on Thursday December 31, 2009 @10:17AM (#30604836) Attached to: Sir Patrick Stewart

...technically, OBE does not admit an individual into knighthood automatically, only KBE and GBE do.

PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist 523

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday October 26, 2008 @01:01PM from the or-maybe-more-of-a-slant dept.

jeevesbond writes "PHP is finally getting support for namespaces. However, after a couple hours of conversation, the developers picked '\' as the separator, instead of the more popular '::'. Fredrik Holmström points out some problems with this approach. The criteria for selection were ease of typing and parsing, how hard it was to make a typo, IDE compatibility, and the number of characters."

Comment Troll? (Score 1) 392

by varn_ix on Friday May 16, 2008 @03:26PM (#23438598) Attached to: Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers

Or it doesn't really mean anything and some sick individual is having a great time listening to all this discourse.

Reminds me of modern art.

Critic: "The author seems to expose the inherent vulnerability of the environment and the human psyche."

Author: "Dude, these are some smears I made when I was high."

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